Team Canada Alumni Association NEWSLETTER – FALL 2012 The Team Canada Alumni Association Where We Want To Be – Our Vision: Team Canada Alumni – Coming Together, Reaching Out Why We Want To Go There – Our Mission: To engage, encourage and enable Team Canada alumni to main- tain a lifelong relationship with Hockey Canada and our game. Who We Will Be Along the Way – Our Values: We are committed to honouring Canada’s interna- tional hockey heritage, assisting with the growth of Canadian hockey and pursuit of international hockey excellence for Canada, while providing an opportu- nity for our alumni to reconnect and celebrate the game and their experiences. These objectives will be within a spirit of teamwork, inclusion, integrity and service. ❚ TABLE OF CONTENTS Team Canada Alumni Association / Hockey Canada Foundation recent events summary................2 From L-R: Gordon Renwick, Wayne Gretzky, Cassie Campbell-Pascall, Bob Reinhart ready for follow-up to Nicholson, Gordie Howe, Frank Mahovlich (representing Jean Béliveau) breakout 2011-12 season ......................5 Join the Club: Sports Arena. You’ll also read interviews with players, Get into the game with Club Hockey Canada .........6 Message from Gord Sherven coach Dave King and Globe and Mail journalist Eric September to Remember: Awrey looks back at CHAIR OF THE TEAM CANADA ALUMNI Duhatschek on this tremendous win! ‘72 series and 40th anniversary celebrations.........7 ASSOCIATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE Your fall newsletter also features all the latest Doing His Part: Notre Dame philosophies updates from Hockey Canada and Hockey Canada lead Strueby to Afghanistan .....................8 Welcome to your Team Canada Alumni Association Foundation events, in addition to great alumni stories Reflections on the Izvestia Cup ...................9 (TCAA) fall 2012 newsletter. featuring Todd Strueby, who is making a difference in Hayley makes more Hockey Herstory ..............10 It’s been 40 years since the Summit Series the lives of police officers and locals in Afghanistan, Golden gala moments.........................11 concluded with a Canadian victory. Who can forget and Hayley Wickenheiser, who is one of the first Driving to make a difference: Team Canada the historic Paul Henderson goal at the Luzhniki female characters in a professional sports league Alumni Association tees off to raise $25,000 Sports Arena in Moscow to secure the win? In this video game. She hopes her character in EA Sports’ for hockey programs across country...............12 newsletter, you’ll read interviews with Team Canada NHL 13 helps inspire young female hockey players, 1972 alumnus Don Awrey on his memories of ’72, and we hope you enjoy this edition of your TCAA Publisher: Hockey Canada and the opportunity he had to be around Team newsletter! Contributors: Chris Bright, Gord Sherven, Hockey Canada Canada for this summer’s Canada-Russia Challenge. Communications I had the opportunity to be part of Team Canada Thank you, Alumni Advisory Committee: David Andrews, Chris Bright, Norm Dueck, Mike Murray, Terry O’Malley, Tom Renney, Gord Sherven, 15 years later, and beat the Russian national team Gord Sherven Ryan Walter at the prestigious Izvestia Cup in the same Luzhniki Chair, TCAA Advisory Committee ❚ Alumni Administration: Norm Dueck ❚ [ 2 ] Team Canada Alumni Association – We are currently in contact with over 1,300 alumni! The Team Canada Alumni Association was founded to help connect alumni with If you have not already registered (no cost), please contact Norm Dueck, who former teammates and offer alumni opportunities to help Hockey Canada grow oversees the alumni association’s activities, at [email protected]. We the game and make the best sport in the world accessible to all Canadians. ❚ want to be sure that we have updated email addresses, mailing addresses and phone numbers from all of our alumni, so we can send you invitations to future alumni events across the country! TEAM CANADA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION / HOCKEY CANADA FOUNDATION Recent Events Summary by Keegan Goodrich & Kristen Lipscombe CANADA’S NATIONAL WOMEN’S TEAM TEAM CANADA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION THIRD SEPTEMBER CAMP/FALL FESTIVAL ANNUAL CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT September 24-29, 2012 – Calgary, Alta. September 18, 2012 – Calgary, Alta. Canada’s top 40 female players converged on Calgary for a week of on-ice Twenty-seven Team Canada alumni, and 108 other participants, gathered at and off-ice training at the end of September in preparation for the upcoming the Lakeside Greens Golf Course and Country Club in Chestermere, Alta., for a season, including the 2012 4 Nations Cup in Finland in November and the 2013 day of golf and goodwill Sept. 18, all in support of the grassroots and high perfor- IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship in Ottawa next April. mance hockey initiatives across the country. In total, 135 golfers hit the greens The annual September Camp/Fall Festival featured two intrasquad games, to help raise more than $25,000 at what was the third annual Team Canada with Red edging White 2-1 and 3-2 in a shootout, and four exhibition games Alumni Association Charity Golf Tournament, an event that continues to grow at against teams from the Alberta Midget Hockey League, which has always been all levels every year. All proceeds go towards the Hockey Canada Foundation, willing to help Canada’s National Women’s Team prepare for international com- which funds hockey programs at all levels from Tyke to Team Canada, while the petition, including in the months leading up to its gold medal wins at the 2006 tournament itself gives alumni the chance to stay connected while continuing to and 2010 Olympic Winter Games. support the sport they love. Please read page 12 to learn more. ❚ Red topped the UFA Bisons from Strathmore 3-1 in the first game, while White won 3-2 in a shootout over the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs, last season’s TELUS Cup champions, in the second game Sept. 26. The candidates for Canada’s National Women’s Team hit the ice again just 24 hours later, with Red beating the Calgary Northstars 4-3 in overtime and White falling 4-2 to the Calgary Flames. The camp roster included four goaltenders, 13 defencemen and 23 forwards, including all 23 players who won a gold medal with Canada’s National Women’s Team at the 2012 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship in Burlington, Vt., 13 members of Canada’s gold medal-winning team from the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C., and three players who won a gold medal with Canada’s National Women’s Under-18 Team at the 2012 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship in Prerov and Zlin, Czech Republic. ❚ Team Canada Alumni Association – Newsletter – FALL 2012 HockeyCanada.ca/HCF [ 3 ] CANADA’S NATIONAL WOMEN’S UNDER-18 TEAM THREE-GAME SERIES VS. UNITED STATES August 16-19, 2012 – Blaine, Minn. After a successful nine-day selection camp at Hockey Canada’s home rink in Calgary, a list of the country’s top 40 female under-18 players was whittled down to the 22-player National Women’s Under-18 Team roster that faced off against the United States for three games in Blaine, Minn., this past August. Canada claimed the series 2-1, staging a late-game comeback in Game 1 to win 3-2 on goals from Nicole Martindale (Brooklin, Ont./Whitby, PWHL), Sydney McKibbon (Oakville, Ont./Stoney Creek, PWHL) and game-winner Hannah Miller (North Vancouver, B.C./Okanagan Hockey School, Midget AAA). Netminder Kimberly Newell (Burnaby, B.C./Kootenay, BCMML) stopped 41 shots. The sec- ond game saw Canada fall 3-1 to its North American rivals, with Hanna Bunton (Belleville, Ont./Whitby, PWHL) scoring the red and white’s lone goal on a power- play in the first period and goaltender Kassidy Sauvé (Whitby, Ont./Whitby, EOMMAAAHL) making 40 saves. But Canada came through in the third and final game, with Ashleigh Brykaliuk (Brandon, Man./Balmoral Hall, JWHL) and Karly Heffernan (St. Albert, Alta./ Edge School, JWHL) scoring in an exciting shootout to lead our under-18 women to a 5-4 win. Brykaliuk, Miller, Halli Krzyzaniak (Neepawa, Man./Pursuit of Excellence, Midget AAA) and Cassidy Carels (Bruxelles, Man./Pembina Valley, MFMHL) each scored in regulation for Canada, while Newell made 32 saves in net for the series victory. The selection camp itself featured Red-White intrasquad games, as well as match-ups against the senior women’s teams from Kazakhstan and Norway, who travelled to Calgary to train and improve their games on the ice. Red beat Norway 7-1 and Kazakhstan 4-0, while White beat Norway 1-0 and Kazakhstan 3-1. Red and White split their games when they faced off against each other, with White taking the first intrasquad game 3-1 and Red closing out camp with a 2-0 victory. ❚ CANADA’S NATIONAL WOMEN’S UNDER-22/DEVELOPMENT TEAM THREE-GAME SERIES VS. UNITED STATES August 16-19, 2012 – Calgary, Alta. Canada’s National Women’s Under-22/Development Team also held a selec- tion camp Aug. 3-11 in Calgary, Alta., but stayed at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park to host the United States for its three-game series. Unfortunately, Canada lost three straight to its rivals, but with each passing game the Canadians kept stepping it up and wore the red and white with pride. Game 1 saw Canada fall behind by two by the game’s midway point, with Nicole Kosta (Mississauga, Ont./Quinnipiac University, ECAC) scoring to narrow the gap late in the second, but that would be the only goal of the game for the Canuck ladies, as the U.S. went on to claim the 4-1 win. Canada’s Kelly Terry (Whitby, Ont./University of Minnesota, WCHA) opened the scoring in Game 2 at 15:35 in the first, but a penalty cost her team its lead before the period was done.